The long awaited update.

Well I'm extremely sorry I had to keep you all waiting for this,
believe me I attempted to deliver an update sooner, but circumstances
prohibit somethings from happening.

WellI left you in Granada, after that I headed back up to Valencia for
a night then flew to Rome. Rome was rather nice, just how I remembered
it but a littlwe better. When I first arrived I found out the Hostel I
booked online no longer existed and spent a good part of the night
looking for another one.

After 3 nights in Rome I headed down to Sorrento, hoping that it would
still remain the medertiranian paridise I fell in love with almost 5
years ago. The weather was absolutely horrid, high winds with a fair
mist pummeling me while I walked, but it was still awsome. I wandered
for I don't know how long taking pictures of the town. I knew I made
the right decision to go back. For lunch I headed to Pompei, not to
see the ruins (one of the tour stops 5 years ago.) But to have lunch.
I remember the best Italian pizza was there so I decided to go back to
the same restaurant. I found it and had a great meal.

After 2 nights in Sorrento I made my way up to Florence, it was rather
nice, I had lots of time to just wander around the city and see the
sights, something which we didn't have the chance for last time I came
through. Walkign up on the hills overlooking the city was beautiful, I
spent a good hour or so on two different days just wandering around
the war memorial area that has been populated with tall skinny trees.

Although Florence was nice I could not find enough things to entertain
me for much more then 2 and a half days, So after 3 nights I headed to
Venice. The main reason I wanted to go to Venice is, I'm sure the same
reason as everyone else, to see the canals. Well I ended up in a camp
ground that my step-sister Ginny recommended to me. The camp-ground
was about an hour away from Venice and close to absolutely nothing. I
spent a total of 5 hours actually in Venice, getting lost in the
streets and taking photos, alot at first, but that quickly slowed down
as everything became the same. I stayed in the camp-ground for 2
nights then headed off to Milan.

Milan was more of a lay-over then anything, I had no extreme desire to
be there, other then the fact that "The Last Supper" is housed there.
For some odd reason I've wanted to see the painting ever since second
grade. I think it had something to do with some cheesy Micheal Angelo
cartoon we watched. Anywho, my hopes and dreams were quickly crushed
when I found out you need to book your ticket 3 days in advanced if
you wish to see the work. I had no desire to stick around in a hostel
that was costing me 19€ a night so the next morning I headed off
towards Switzerland.

Lugano was my first stop in Switzerland. The town itself I don't think
is known for anything. It's in Italian Switzerland, and could very
easily been mistaken as a mediterranian city. The palm trees and teal
waters didn't exactly scream Switzerland at me, but oh well, eh? While
I was there I hit up a Swiss Chocolate factory. It was a good bit of
fun and I ended up buying 2 kilos (Almost 5 lbs) of Chocolate at a
very discounted price. (I'm sending about a quarter of it home. Hunt
down my family if you want some swiss chocolate!)

After two nights in Lugano I took off to Lucern for two more. Infact,
thats where I am right now. It's a very pretty city and has an amazing
sled run for free. I went down the hill today and ended up taking out
one of the run markers. As I headed towards it all I could think was
"I wonder what that's made out of." and then I was pulling my face out
of the snow. Since I was still alive I decided it was some sort of
plastic, but as I walked back to my sled I found out it was a 5 foot
tall 3 inch thick piece of wood stuck, I don't know how far into the
ground.

Well that has been my journey over the last almost 2 weeks, as a bonus
to all of you I have included a link to the photo albums of my trip.
It's missing from mid Ireland all the way to Paris, and thephotos only
take you part of the way through Spain, but there sure is alot of
them, have fun!

=Logan, Switzerland

http://www.snapfish.com/share/p=707191142780963524/l=87130154/otsc=SYE/otsi=SALB